Rewards for Server Transfers

New pet Gannifari

Bioware keeps rewarding their subscribers for playing the game. This time they are going to give a new non combat pet, the Gannifari as well as 25 Black Hole Commendations. It should be noted that all subscribers that had their characters either on an original or a destination server would be rewarded.

Your character(s) must be on a qualifying server (which includes destination servers) and your account must be active by July 30, 2012 at 11:59 PM CDT / July 31, 2012 at 4:59AM GMT.

The new pet it's just a bonus where as 25 BH Commendations is the really gift. It seems that BW gives something to new players that were left behind on their PvE progression as before transfers, most servers were dead and groups for FP and Operations were impossible to be formed.

Server Transfer List!!!

Character transfers are final here! This is the list for the eligible server transfers.



Certain transfers are complimentary at this time:


Between the following servers:

The Shadow Runner to Tomb of Freedon Nadd

Stereb Cities to The Jedi Tower 


The Restoration Zone to Jar'Kai Sword

Phateem Halls of Knowledge to Mantle of the Force 


Mecrosa Order to Darth Nihilus 


Rakata Mind Prison to The Bastion 


Hedarr Soongh to The Fatman 


Eye of Ashlanae to The Red Eclipse 


Keller's Void to Jedi Covenant 


Soresu to The Harbinger 

Ranked Warzones are coming at 1.3!

Good news everyone! Rated Warzones are officially announced for 1.3!

Mindspore: Any update on Ranked Warzones in 1.3?

Daniel: Ranked Warzones is on track for 1.3. All the heavy lifting (ratings, group persistence exiting warzones, etc) is done and right now we are working through some emergent conflicts with Group Finder and the process of queuing for multiple activities at once with multiple temporary groups.

1.3 Group Finder Rewards

To recap the details we know so far for group finder (SERVER ONLY):


You can queue for:
-Normal and Heroic Flashpoints
-Story Mode Operations
-Planet's Heroic Quests


You can select the role you can fill. The roles are limited from you Advance Class.


It would teleport you to the Flashpoint when your group is assembled.


You can select the specific content you want to do or you can select a random queue.


DAILY REWARDS FOR RANDOM QUEUES:

Mode	Rewards
Normal Flashpoints	5 Daily Commendations
HM Tier 1 Flashpoints	5 Black Hole Commendations
HM Tier 2 Flashpoints	5 Black Hole Commendations
Story Mode Operations	5 Black Hole Commendations

Preview of group finder for 1.3!

Here we got a preview of the group finder UI that would be introduced on patch 1.3.

As you can see, on the left side are the role that you can fill and on the right the different modes that you can experience. The most interesting part is that the list of the HM Flashpoints that you'll get a group for are, is different from what is now on Live. You can only play Lost Island, The Battle of Ilum, The False Emperor, Directive 7, Kaon Under Siege. As they are only 5 HM Flashpoints that you can queue for, I wouldn't be surprised if the change the loots that you'll obtain from the final bosses and just give a different set piece from each one. Finally we can see that only Denova Story Mode would be on the LFG.

1.3 is going to hit the PTS servers soon, so stay tuned for more infos and insights for the upcoming patch.

Server transfers next week?

In twitter, Stephen Reid the Community Manager of SWTOR answered a question from a player and said that server transfers are coming BEFORE 1.3 and would expect more news next week. I would probably been expecting an update to the transfers like details about the procedure and even applies for a server transfer.

Next patch name: "Allies"

Apparently during Q4 financial report Bioware announced that the 2 next patch would be introduced in the next quarter and would be named "Legacy" and "Allies". I would say "Legacy" is patch 1.2 and I would add 1.3 as the incoming patch is mostly a tool's patch than a continuation to PvE and PvP endgame. "Allies" would probably be the new tier of operations and etc so let's see what else would be added in summer.

1.3 patch and what is coming

A small list as to what we should expect for 1.3.




SERVER ONLY GROUP FINDER for:


1) Flashpoints
2) Heroic Flashpoints
3) Operations (Story Mode only)
4) Planet Content (Group Quests)


LEGACY PERKS


The legacy perks that can be already found on the Future tab of Legacy


ADAPTIVE GEAR


Social gear would adapt to the armor type of user. Bikini tanks!


AUGMENT TABLES


Augment tables would be added to the game where players would be able to add an augment slot to any piece of wearable gear armor. No more need of crit crafting. All of end game gear would be finally equivalent.

Group Finder for Operations coming in 1.3!

Amazing news for all of you that liked the LFR in WoW and wanted that feature on SWTOR. In the latest official podcast, Damion Schubert said that in the upcoming 1.3, group finder would be used for Flaspoints, Heroic Mode Flashpoints, Group Missions and STORY MODE OPERATIONS!




Expect 1.3 to hit really really soon the live servers and let's hope that Bioware will continue to give more alpha quality content!